8 days / 7 nights
A vibrant journey through music, memory, and Afro-Colombian heritage, where rhythm shapes identity and culture becomes a living experience.
What Inspires this Journey?
Colombia is a unique Afro destination in the world. With the second largest Afro-descendant population in the continent after Brazil, the country has preserved, celebrated, and shared its African roots through authentic cultural expressions that continue to thrive in its people, traditions, and lands.
This journey highlights the richness of African heritage through direct experiences: the Caleña salsa that moves both body and soul, the daily life of the San Cipriano community, the pulsating champeta of Cartagena, and the rhythms, flavors, and memories of San Basilio de Palenque and La Boquilla. Travelers will connect with the living memory of these cultures, feel the energy of their rhythms, and share moments of learning, joy, and collective creativity, engaging with an Afro legacy that is preserved, renewed, and celebrated in every encounter and region.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The journey begins in Cali, the world capital of salsa, where music and the city’s vibrant energy set the rhythm. Travelers explore the historic center, visit the Salsa Museum, and take a class that allows them to experience the pulse of this genre, which defines local identity. From there, the trip ventures into the Farallones of Cali and the Pance River, combining nature, biodiversity, and coffee experiences with Afro-Colombian rural life.
In the Pacific region, the community of San Cipriano welcomes travelers to an encounter with ancestral culture through its traditions, cuisine, and crystal-clear rivers.
Upon arriving in Cartagena, the itinerary explores the city’s African heritage through fruit tastings with palenqueras, champeta classes, and visits to neighborhoods where Afro memory remains alive. In La Boquilla, music and mangroves reveal the traditional life of this fishing community. Finally, in San Basilio de Palenque, travelers experience a deep Afro legacy through rhythms, flavors, and stories of freedom and cultural resilience.
ESSENTIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Cali, World Capital of Salsa:
Immerse yourself in the essence of salsa culture with a tour of the city’s most iconic sites, visit the Salsa Museum, and take a personalized class that reveals the passion and identity of this caleño rhythm.
Farallones and Coffee:
Explore the Pance River and the Farallones of Cali, walking along trails rich in biodiversity, waterfalls, and birdlife, while learning about Colombian coffee and its connection to Afro-Colombian rural life.
San Cipriano, Tropical Paradise:
Access this natural sanctuary aboard the traditional “brujitas” and glide along crystal-clear rivers and lush jungle, while the community shares its ancestral traditions, stories, and Pacific Colombian cuisine.
Afro Cartagena:
Taste fruits with palenqueras, learn champeta with local dancers, and explore La Boquilla, a fishing village where mangroves, percussion, and traditional Afro life preserve the Caribbean’s African heritage.
San Basilio de Palenque, UNESCO Heritage:
Visit the first free town in the Americas, recognized by UNESCO, where the Palenquera language, music, rituals, and oral traditions keep African memory alive. Experience a community that has preserved its identity for centuries.
